Hypothetical cylinder deactivation question

[Frank Lee]

There are many threads on cylinder deactivation here.

I took the rockers off the valves and pulled the injector wires.

And if many say that car is too loud, it is. Denying that and terrorizing the neighborhood with it is just plain rude.

[2000neon]

Terrorizing the neighborhood, when I drop the mufflers at the track? Really?
And no offense meant, but it's always people over the Internet who have never heard the car that say it's too loud. I have yet to have anyone in person say anything.

[2000neon]

The car runs through true mufflers whenever it is on the street. I also don't "terrorize" the neighborhood at all, all my fun is at the track.

[Frank Lee]

So all these people were over the internet, imagining things? Could be, but then again I hear stupid redneck crap exhausts all day long... those are real.

[2000neon]

Yes, people who read about my cam, and compression ratio, and can apparently accurately determine that the exhaust will be too loud for me when I race it.

Are you going to try and say that my exhaust is too loud or crappy sounding too without knowing a single detail about the car?

[Frank Lee]

ADD much? You said people said it's loud and I went with it. Now you know my position on loud exhausts. Are you going to disable a cylinder or what?

[2000neon]

I'm going to keep exploring the possibility and looking for Constructive criticism.

[2000neon]

When you did it, did you do just one or two cylinders? Was there an actual mpg gain? What engine?

[Ecky]

Don't mind Frank. If I had a nickel for every time someone took offense to his opinions on here, I'd buy you lunch.

Please, do try it and report back with your findings/opinions. I hadn't ever seriously entertained the idea of disabling just one cylinder before.

[ps2fixer]

I attempted a quick fuel cut on 2 of 4 cyl on my corolla one day, ran fine, vibrated quite a lot, could have been driveable but desided to clear the check engine light and drive home. My big 105hp engine cut in half + other losses would probably make a turd but maybe great mpg.

I would like to see more attempts on a cyl delete. The cars I drive directly push on the valves, so only way to "delete" them would be to grind off the lobe on the cams.

I suspect a 1 cyl delete would run pretty off, but shouldn't be super bad, depending on how the engine is designed, and what the ECU does because of the delete. I would say not one answer covers all cars.

On a side note, I do have an extra set of cams for my Camry from an engine that ran out of oil, could be interesting, but too old for instant MPG feed back .